_oppidum natura loci munitum_ (B. G. 1. 38)—a town with a strong
natural position.
_oppidum manu (opere) munitum_—a town artificially fortified.
_oppidum obsidere_—to besiege a city.
_oppidum obsidione claudere_—to besiege a city.
_oppidum in obsidione tenere_—to keep a town in a state of siege.
_oppidum fame domare_—to starve a town into surrender.
_oppidum oppugnare_—to storm a town.
_oppidum cingere vallo et fossa_—to surround a town with a rampart and
fosse.
_opera facere_—to raise siege-works.
_vineas agere_ (B. G. 3. 21)—to advance pent-houses, mantlets.
_turres instituere, exstruere_—to raise towers.
_testudine facta moenia subire_ (B. G. 2. 6)—to advance to the walls
protected by a covering of shields.
_scalas admovere_ (B. C. 3. 63)—to apply scaling-ladders.
_positis scalis muros ascendere_—to scale the walls by means of ladders.
_aries murum attingit, percutit_—the battering-ram strikes the wall.
_iter ruina patefactum_—a breach.
_patentia ruinis_ (_vid._ XII. 1, note _ruina..._)—a breach.
_cuniculos agere_ (B. G. 3. 21)—to make mines, subterraneous passages.
_oppidum tormentis verberare_—to rain missiles on a town, bombard it.
_tela ingerere, conicere_—to discharge showers of missiles.
_murum nudare defensoribus_—to drive the defenders from the walls.
_eruptionem facere ex oppido_—to make a sally, sortie from the town.
_crebras ex oppido excursiones facere_ (B. G. 2. 30)—to make a sally,
sortie from the town.
_ignem inferre operibus_ (B. C. 2. 14)—to set fire to the siege-works.
_subsidium alicui summittere_—to send relief to some one.
_munitiones perrumpere_—to break through the lines (and relieve a town).
_urbis obsidionem liberare_—to raise a siege (used of the army of
relief).
_oppidum obsidione liberare_—to raise a siege (used of the army of
relief).
_obsidionem quattuor menses sustinere_—to hold out for four months.
_oppugnationem, obsidionem relinquere_—to give up an assault, a siege.
_portas obstruere_ (B. G. 5. 50)—to barricade the gates.
_portas refringere_—to break down the gates.
_claustra portarum revellere_—to break down the gates.
_in oppidum irrumpere_—to break into the town.
_in oppidum irruptionem facere_—to break into the town.
_oppidum capere, expugnare_—to take, storm a town.
_oppidum recipere_—to retake a town.
_oppidum incendere_—to fire a town.
_oppidum diripere_—to plunder a town.
_oppidum evertere, excīdere_—to completely destroy a town.
_oppidum solo aequare_—to raze a town to the ground.
_deditione facta_ (Sall. Iug. 26)—after capitulation.
_arma tradere_—to surrender weapons.
_salutem petere a victore_—to beg for mercy from the conqueror.
_se suaque omnia dedere victori_—to give up one's person and all one's
possessions to the conqueror.
_se suaque omnia permittere victoris potestati_—to give up one's
person and all one's possessions to the conqueror.
_se permittere in fidem atque in potestatem alicuius_ (B. G. 2. 3)—to
surrender oneself to the discretion of some one.
_in fidem recipere aliquem_ (Fam. 13. 16)—to deal mercifully with some
one.
_libera corpora sub corona (hasta) veneunt_ (B. G. 3. 16. 4)—the free
men are sold as slaves.
_cum uxoribus et liberis_—with wife and child.
_aliquem (incolumem) conservare_—to grant a man his life.